Where They Stood

A long, long time ago (1988)
I can still remember
How that music used to make me smile...(Debbie Gibson, George Michael, Glen Medeiros)
And I knew if I had the chance, I could share a dance 
and maybe be happy for a while...

But March made me shiver
Bad news on our doorstep and I absolutely cried....

But this isn't about the day the music died.  This was about the day I almost died and it's about my first experience with losing someone I loved.  This is a personal story, about Where I Stood in July of 1988, as I was moving out of my childhood and into a confusing, hormonal life as a teenager.  Join me in reliving this event and growing up in the late 1980s.

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Berrien, Livingston, Van Buren, Barry, Cass, Livingston, Ingham and Eaton. No, I did not just read you a list of counties under a tornado watch. But, If you live in mid or Southern Michigan, you’ve heard these names before because of course, these are the names of… Andrew Jackson’s presidential cabinet members.  Learn more about our country’s 7th president, a territory called Michigan (trying to become a state), John Eaton, (Andrew Jackson’s secretary of war caught in a scandal) and….Eaton trying to beat up Ingham??? This episode is FULL of it..."it" being amazing info to help you and your DJ Trivia Team.

Picture of John Eaton, courtesy of Florida Department of State.

Sources:
https://www.history.com/topics/us-presidents/andrew-jackson#andrew-jackson-s-early-life
https://www.whitehousehistory.org/bios/andrew-jackson
Taraross.com This day in history
Britannica
https://thehermitage.com/learn/andrew-jackson/childhood/
https://www.womenhistoryblog.com/2008/12/elizabeth-hutchinson-jackson.html
https://michiganology.org/stories/steps-to-statehood-for-michigan/#:~:text=Congress%20said%20Michigan%20had%20work,85%2C000%20people%20living%20in%20Michigan.
Steps to Statehood for Michigan--MICHIGAN HISTORY CENTER STAFF
https://www.michigan.gov/dmva/about/history/military-events/highlights/the-toledo-war
https://www.americanhistorycentral.com/entries/petticoat-affair/
Dictionary.com
Wikipedia.com
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Worcester-v-Georgia
https://owlcation.com/humanities/3-Famous-Duels-Involving-Andrew-Jackson
https://medium.com/omgfacts/the-true-story-of-andrew-jacksons-swearing-parrot-6189abaa3155
https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/Attempt_to_kill_King_Andrew.htm
https://libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2015/05/crisis-chronicles-the-man-on-the-twenty-dollar-bill-and-the-panic-of-1837/

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According to Marriage and Divorce 19th Century Style  written by Margaret Wood, “A man could divorce his wife for one instance of adultery but a woman could only obtain a divorce if her husband was physically cruel, incestuous, or bestial in addition to being adulterous." Zella Belle Wheaton, from Charlotte, MI, was part of this 19th century marriage culture and caught in the snare of wanting a divorce but unfortunately, being a woman accused of adultery, she was thrown into a jail cell.  Also discussed, the city of Detroit and Lou Gehrig??  Yes, Lou Gehrig.

One last thing, I have some STRONG opinions about Warren "Woody" Woodbury.  Soooorry if you find him likeable!


Sources:
https://99wfmk.com/chestermichigan/
Genealogybank
Wikipedia
https://www.eatoncounty.org/479/Sheriffs-of-Eaton-County
https://www.legalchoices.org.uk/dictionary/culpa#:~:text=Blameworthiness%20or%20a%20fault.,culpa%20(I%20am%20at%20fault)
https://www.historicdetroit.org/buildings/book-cadillac-hotel
Ann Arbor Daily Argus
Google Maps
Charlotte Republican
https://www.pennmedicine.org/for-patients-and-visitors/patient-information/conditions-treated-a-to-z/arteriosclerosis#:~:text=What%20Is%20Arteriosclerosis%3F,diabetes%20and%20certain%20genetic%20influences.
Cornell Law Schools, Legal Information Institute
Detroit News
Politicalsailor, a descendent of Zulla Delle’s daughter, Elizabeth.  Politicalsailor is the Ancestry username of this person who uploaded some really cool photos of Wheaton family artifacts.
Marriage and Divorce in the 19th century  https://blogs.loc.gov/law/2018/02/marriage-and-divorce-19th-century-style/
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-racist-slutshaming-history-of-adultery-laws

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A ghost town, pioneer days of Charlotte, MI and...wrestling a toothless bear?  Meet the Wheatons which include the first sheriff of Eaton County, a two time mayor of Charlotte, MI and the descendants that brought these stories to us.  Also, I have a returning guest and I'm SURE you're going to love the story I'm forcing him to share!

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Something different!  Please join ma-self and my dear friend, Brittany as I read her some bonkers headlines I've found while researching, she tells me what she thinks the story is about and then, I read the rest of the story.  Dipshitery and hilarity ensue!  Hope you enjoy this episode!

Sources:
Newspapers.com
Genealogybank.com
WILX.com

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Maple Hill Cemetery in Charlotte, MI has a mystery.  There are 37 unmarked graves buried SOMEWHERE inside its gates.  This is the story of how these resting places were discovered on paper and one man's efforts to find them.  Bonus Material: all you wanted to know about decomposition, cadaver dogs and my favorite park as a child that was once a cemetery.

CALL TO ACTION: Please, contact me on the Where They Stood Facebook page or contact the Maple Hill Cemetery in Charlotte, MI if you can help with a Ground Penetrating Radar machine or a cadaver dog.  Please, help!


SOURCES:
Interview with Chuck Brandon

www.inverse.com
"What Cadaver Dogs Really Sniff For In The Hunt For The Dead" by Lucy Huang, July 27, 2017

Maplehillcemeterycharlottemi.com
Wikipedia--Potter's Field

"An inside look at the 6 most haunted places in the Lansing area," Rachel Greco, Lansing State Journal, October 25, 2019

How Stuff Works: State Funded Funerals: What Happens to the Unclaimed Dead by Adina Soloman

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This is the backstory of one of the most famous couples in America, who never knew of their fame.  They are legends of our time but not their own.  Get to know this pioneer couple who faced so many hardships, including a moment where they were faced with giving up their second born daughter, Laura.   




Sources:
Pioneergirl.com
Nancy Cleavland
Ancestry.com
Google
John Bass, president, director and historian of the Ingalls-Wilder-Lane Historic Alliance, located in Shreveport, La.

Little House on the Prairie.com Caroline Ingalls
DECEMBER 12, 2015 BY SARAH S. UTHOFF
https://littlehouseontheprairie.com/about-caroline-ingalls-ma/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Michigan_Triangle

Old World Wisconsin FB page article from Feb 1, 2022

Lansing State Journal,
Sarah Leach, Holland Sentenial
July 14, 2022
Four drowned in Lake Michigan waters in a single day. What happened and what can we do?https://www.lansingstatejournal.com/story/news/accident/2022/07/14/riptide-currents-led-multiple-drownings-lake-michigan-waterways/10056562002/?fbclid=IwAR2ZHbnZ2tyxYl1d-bxkm1IxtK_T45qoOQ11Mdme1SatEoGsYVw4CGjvR-c

WebMD Sleep Paralysis November 17, 2022
https://www.webmd.com/sleep-disorders/sleep-paralysis 

CNN–The Real Reason Mary Ingalls Went Blind
https://www.cnn.com/2016/02/03/health/mary-ingalls-blind-little-house-on-prairie/index.html

On Our Own-Bobby Brown
June 22, 1989, MCA

The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald-Gordon Lightfoot
August 1976, Reprise

Laura Ingalls Wilder Family Correspondence
https://content.wisconsinhistory.org/digital/collection/tp/id/55378

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They were carpenters, soldiers, bakers, confectioners and inventors.  They hailed from the British Empire, Virginia, West Virginia and Ohio, without almost never moving.  They were absolute patriots whose branches and roots filled the lands.  They went to war….sadly, against each other and some of them ended up in Charlotte, MI.   They were a little bit of this and a little bit of that, which is what this episode is going to be like and...might they be tied to our beloved Hastings family from episodes one and two?   Please let me introduce you to… the Marples. 

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Sources: 
Newspapers.com
Ancestry.com
Family of Rollo Marple
The History of Knox County, OHIO, past and present by N.N. Hill Jr.
Battlefields.org
Pat Campion, Author of Charlotte Michigan Historical Homes, People, and Businesses
Albionmich.com article about Opera house by Frank Passic
Charlotte The Beautiful, 1907
Usa.ipums.org

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Learn everything you didn't want to know about Metal Detecting from a true pro, my husband Joe Corr.  This is an unedited interview and authentic, giving you some insight into us as a couple (and hey, we're getting along)! This interview also introduces a different dynamic to the podcast: he searches the dirt, I search the history.   Hear us at our best, without stress! 

Note: I DO call him a detectorist.
His son is also my son 😂
He found ARSENIC in Arizona, not dynamite.

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Remembering Deputy Donald Earl Rice from Charlotte, MI.  He was killed on December 10, 1985 by a hit and run driver on I-69 south while assisting a motorist.  Learn more about this man, that fateful day and why he didn’t die in vain.

References:
Lansing State Journal
Tom Dewitt
James A. Harris and Clarence A. Chien “Police impound car suspected in hit -run death of officer” Thursday, December 12, 1985
Kathy Barks Hoffman and James A. Harris, “Hit-run driver kills Eaton deputy,” Dec 11, 1985
Kathy Barks Hoffman, “Woman never saw hit-run driver,” Dec 11, 1985
James A. Harris, “Fellow deputies praise, mourn Rice,” Dec. 11, 1985
Dedria Barker, “Pastor, fellow officers blast drunken driving,” 
Alec Marsy, “In The Line Of Duty,” May 16, 2009
Dick Frazier, “Drunken Driver Gets 10 to 15 years for deputy’s death,” Jan. 30, 1987
Dick Frazier, “Deputy’s Widow Awarded $116,000,” Dec 10, 1987
Dick Frazier, “Osborne found guilty in car death of deputy,” Jan. 6, 1987
Jean Moore, “Sentence doesn’t end pain,” Jan. 30, 1987
Chris Andrews, “Red ribbon reminders,” Nov. 21, 1989

Inflation calculator 
Wikipedia
Letter written by Carrie Beavers Cook
Rod Sadler, author
Ellen Rice Deverman
Amanda Gleason

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